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Elegant dancer, passionate educator Jacques d’Amboise dies Jocelyn Noveck Updated:  Tags:  Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - Dancer-choreographer Jacques d'Amboise appears during an interview in his office at the National Dance Institute in New York on March 3, 2018. D'Amboise, who grew up on the streets of upper Manhattan to become one of the world's premier classical dancers at New York City Ballet and spent the last four and a half decades providing free dance classes to city youth at his National Dance Institute, died Sunday, May 2, 2021. He was 86. His ...

Jacques d’Amboise, who became one of the world’s premier classical dancers at New York City Ballet, having grown up on the city’s streets, and spent the last four and a half decades providing free dance classes to the city’s young people at his National Dance Institute, has died aged  86. His death was confirmed by Ellen Weinstein, director of the institute. She said the dancer and teacher had died on Sunday at his home from complications of a stroke. He was surrounded by his family. Plucked for stardom at NYCB as a teenager by its legendary director, George Balanchine, d’Amboise p...

Dancer Jacques d'Amboise, who grew up on the streets of upper Manhattan to become one of the world's premier dancers at New York City Ballet, has died at 86

Jacques d’Amboise, who became one of the world’s premier classical dancers at New York City Ballet, having grown up on the city’s streets, and spent the last four and a half decades providing free dance classes to the city’s young people at his National Dance Institute, has died aged  86. His death was confirmed by Ellen Weinstein, director of the institute. She said the dancer and teacher had died on Sunday at his home from complications of a stroke. He was surrounded by his family. Plucked for stardom at NYCB as a teenager by its legendary director, George Balanchine, d’Amboise p...

Dancer Jacques d’Amboise dies aged 86 Jacques d’Amboise (Mary Altaffer/AP) Jacques d’Amboise, who became one of the world’s premier classical dancers at New York City Ballet, having grown up on the city’s streets, and spent the last four and a half decades providing free dance classes to the city’s young people at his National Dance Institute, has died aged  86. His death was confirmed by Ellen Weinstein, director of the institute. She said the dancer and teacher had died on Sunday at his home from complications of a stroke. He was surrounded by his family.